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IBADAN, Nigeria | The wail of 6-week-old Quari Babaola cut through the air like the blade that had just sliced through his chin.IBADAN, Nigeria | The wail of 6-week-old Quari Babaola cut through the air like the blade that had just sliced through his chin.His mother Kafilat shuddered but kept a determined grip on the tiny limbs as a traditional healer smeared the cuts on her baby's hands, feet, back and chest with a sticky black paste of ground-up charcoal and chanted incantations to stop the oo...

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In a widening crackdown on Hamas, Israel on Saturday arrested Saleh Aruri, the founder of the Palestinian Hamas military wing in the West Bank, and moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pushed forward with a plan to cut off cash to the Islamic militants. Abbas' Fatah movement rejected an offer for dialogue from the top Hamas leader, deposed Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. In his first remarks since Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip more than a week ago, Egyptian President Hosni Mubara...

Yemeni guard kills Indian oil worker

Yemeni guard opened fire on a group of foreign oil workers shortly after they landed at an Occidental Petroleum Corp. airstrip in southern Shabwa province, killing one and wounding five —- including an American. The U.S. Embassy in San'a said the American was "critically injured." Yemeni officials said the worker killed in the attack was an Indian national; the wounded included two Britons, a Tunisian and a Yemeni man.

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The world's major oil companies replaced reserves at levels below 100 percent for the third straight year in 2006, even as costs to find and produce the key asset continued to rise, a new analysis shows.

Reserve replacements last year, excluding acquisitions and divestitures, were 91 percent, below the 92 percent replaced in 2005, according to a report released last week by the investment bank Bear Stearns & Co.

At the same time, the companies' finding and development costs rose to $13.63 per barrel of oil equivalent, the report said, a 28 percent rise from 2005.

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Best clear the pulpit: London restaurateur Koye Rhodes preaches the power of barbecue.

Sure, many Americans, South Carolinians and Charlestonians consider the food sacred.

Only Rhodes sees it as his salvation.

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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -- Labor unions on Saturday called off a strike aimed at overturning a government fuel-price hike, ending a four-day work stoppage that shut down most major economic activity in Africa's biggest oil producer, officials said. Labor officials said they accepted a government proposal to hold off on raising fuel prices for a year, while accepting an earlier offer to halve the price increase that had sparked the strike. Secretary General John Odah of the Nigerian Labor Congres...

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